Ah so we really just have a fascination with containers.
I definitely do. I’m starting to use them though. Oh yeah you want some weed to take home with you? Here you go- in a cloth bag inside a cool box with a drawer.
And you’ll need it the day after you throw it away.
I just received a chair in the mail, and I had to make the conscious decision to recycle the box the day of. I folded several others into it, and now I have a fantastic amount of space :)
I can put the cable collection in this box!
I work in shipping and many times we get boxes in and i go “MAN! This is a REALLY nice box!”
It’s kind of depressing how excited i get about cardboard boxes. Double walled AND heavy duty?!? Oh my.
That’s not depressing. I do not work in shipping. I do get excited by good box and I am not seeing anything wrong here.
Nothing like good box.
To quote AVGN: “Don’t you talk about my boxes! I like boxes!”
Also, you can make furniture with cardboard and wheat glue. Glue at least 5 layers, making the wavy pattern “interlock” (one cardboard vertical, one cardboard horizontal)
My people, you understand me on a fundamental level that even a coven of therapists could never achieve.
I’ve gotten better about it, though. I mostly only start fattening up my box collection from late summer until the holidays, then I hit the gym, where I keep all my boxes, and start slowly downsizing the collection to the bare minimum just in time for summer. Round about July I find that I’m in need of a certain size and shape box that I no longer have in my possession, and then the cycle begins anew. It’s the circle, the circle of life.
I use fun coloured tape to turn them into beautiful box boxes that hold my other boxes.
IMO, it’s only a good cardboard box if it can be folded back down and stored flat. Weird shapes, extra thick walls, or stapled construction types suck to store.
Unless you find a really solid one that can then become the Master Box, in which you keep the other flat-packed ones that you will definitely recycle one of these days
Boxes that have large sections with no bends/holes/crap glued to them are also nice if you use it to make templates for stuff or need a temporary floor/surface covering for painting or whatever.
Boxes of a certain size are kept for my cat to play in for awhile.
Depends on whether there’s a cat in your household.
For me: boxes stay around for 2-3 weeks. Then my kids get art supplies and are set loose upon it. Depending on the success of said art, it can stay around for months (a large furniture box turned into “Kitty Cat Castle” which still stands in my daughter’s room over a year now) or set out with the next recycling.
Get a cat, then the decision will be made for you
My cat decided a mandarin orange box was the greatest thing ever created and that she should live in it pretty much full-time, so it sat in our living room until it basically disintegrated lol. The look of betrayal when we finally threw it out
save those McMaster-Carr baggies for snacks n such
Woah. What is that from?
MGSV
